Re: Development - an outsider’s perspective

[Philippe Michel]

On Sat, Dec 24, 2022 at 12:46:44PM +0000, Carsten Wenderdel wrote:

> 2. Separation of concerns
> 
> If you want to play around with inputs and evaluation, develop a bot 
> or another GUI it would be very helpful to have a core gnubg library 
> without application code. For example a simple C or Python function 
> with match and position as input and equities as output. This is 
> currently missing or I can’t find it.

Regarding the last point, the external player feature allows to send 
commands to a gnubg instance on a TCP socket.

This is not a core library approach either, but I think that in chess 
open source software they tend to use a similar approach, with a few GUI 
applications and many engines using a common communication protocol.

That may be an intresting project for those interested in GUI 
programming. A backgammon GUI front-end, with various back-ends to 
communicate with gnubg, fibs, dailygammon, another GUI over a chat 
application, etc...